Iran agreed to transfer to Ukraine flight recorders from a downed UIA aircraft, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Andriy Shevchenko has stated.
“An important result regarding PS752. Iran confirms it has agreed to transfer the PS752 black boxes to Ukraine and (if additional expertise needed) to France, Farhad Parvaresh, Iran’s Representative to ICAO said at the ICAO Council session in Montreal. Ukraine welcomes Iran’s decision,” the ambassador wrote on Twitter on March 11.
A Ukraine International Airlines plane (Flight PS752) heading from Tehran to Kyiv crashed shortly after taking off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport at about 06:00 Tehran time (04:30 Kyiv time) on Wednesday, January 8. There were 176 people on board – nine crew members (all Ukrainians) and 167 passengers (citizens of Ukraine, Iran, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, and the UK).
On January 11, Iran admitted that its military had accidentally shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accepted full responsibility for the downing of the Ukrainian airliner.